Burning Down the House
Well, here we have it. My new page layout. Not only does it a bit cleaner, and relegate the archives to a separate page, but I do believe it rivals the garishness of all my peers without resorting to #FF6666, so I am immensely proud. I need to fix the archives up a bit though later. Feel free to give suggestions.
Anyway though, if you're wondering about the title of this rant, it's quite simple. About a week ago, my house came very close to being engulfed in a massive ball of flame, thanks to a combination of someone who wasn't qualified filling up the propane tank on a grill incorrectly, and the local fire department TAKING THE DAY OFF. I'm serious. Not one single fireman was there at the time, and the time was about 6:30 PM. 15 minutes after calling 911, and 10 minutes after getting the fire out with a tiny little fire extinguisher (maybe a minute before the seal on the tank would have finished melting, setting off the entire tank, overfilled with propane) a little mini-fire truck arrived, filled with little mini-firemen from the next town over. Seriously. They looked no older than 14 tops. Anyway though, aside from a few first degree burns and a bit of a mess, everything's fine, but next time I see a member of my local fire department (in about 3 days) I'm going to be giving some VERY dirty looks.
The reason, if you care (and even if you don't) that I'll be seeing such people in 3 days is that it's my birthday, and basically the whole town is invited over for a party. Not like I'm popular or anything, it's just that I live in a town where most people think coughing up $20 to spend the day at a party is a pretty good deal. Heck! If any of you people are insane enough to find where I live, and feel up to it, you're all more than welcome to stop by. If you cough up the $20 that is.
Much more significant than my birthday coming up though is that a new season of Farscape starts tomorrow night. Woo!
Randomly shifting topics back to this new layout now. As you can see, I now have a new links page. The top third of that is something I have been meaning to do for quite some time, so it's somewhat disheartening to know that just before I went live with it, Jeremy Parish, my evil twin, did the exact same thing, in a much better looking fashion. Plus he used Mega Man Battle Network. Maybe later I'll take the effort to make little stat graphs for everyone that you need to look through red plastic filters to read.
Anyway though, if you're wondering about the "trilogy" bit, it's simple. Of those 5 pages, everyone I've ever met seems to have 3 they visit on a regular basis, while looking down on the other two. The reason Silkenray is stuck in there too is just to ward off those psycho-Christian groups who insist that the number 5 is inherently evil. Besides which, she seems to be friends with just about all of us.
Oh, and you know that special present I linked everyone to last rant? Funny story about that. Sometime between when i threw that link in, and when people actually found it, the server in question croaked, and all files had to be restored. When the people running yon server did this, they accidentally uploaded someone else's video instead of mine... which is both a different anime series, AND a different version of Hungry Like the Wolf. You'd think having uncovered this mistake, it'd be fixed by now, but nope. I'll mention it once it is though.
